"Every year at CNET Car Tech, we have to adjust our expectations about the cars we review, as new models up the ante for cabin tech and advanced powertrains. A couple of years ago, we thought the live traffic feature on the Acura RL was as good as it gets, but now we've seen live traffic in both a BMW 535i and a Cadillac CTS that blows away the Acura RL's. So once again, we look back at the past year's cars and decide which is the Tech Car of the Year. And this year, our Car Tech Awards include such categories as the coolest new technology, the most tech money can buy, and the best tech to update your beater.

The 2008 Cadillac CTS wins our 2007 Tech Car of the Year Award. Our judges were torn between the CTS and the 2008 Lexus LS 600h, but our reader poll had the CTS as second behind the 2008 Acura TL Type S. Our votes swung towards the CTS when we considered that the LS 600h has only one over-the-top feature, self parking, while the CTS has two: the ability to pause live radio and a weather feed through its satellite radio. Both cars feature an in-dash music server and live traffic reporting on the navigation system. Our staff judges felt that the 2008 Acura TL Type S had too much torque steer and too many buttons on the interface to be Tech Car of the Year.

We looked back at the cars we've seen this year and came up with 10 nominees for Tech Car of the Year. These cars all showed good cabin technology packages, with some interesting powertrain and platform tech. Some models came in with very interesting improvements in 2007. But the car we found had the best tech in 2007 was the 2008 Cadillac CTS."